In July 2011, I was invited to train as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Africa, focusing on HIV/AIDS Outreach. This is what will hopefully become my valiant attempt at documenting my experiences in the days leading up to, including, and following my service.

Friday, January 24, 2014

23/22

Lesego started school this week! He looks so smart in his
backpack, and has already gotten into the habit of putting it on and heading
for the door as soon as he wakes up.Let’s slow down, take a bath, and eat breakfast first little buddy.It’s been so much fun watching him grow
into a little person these past two years, when I look at pictures of him now
he looks more and more like a boy and less like the baby I’m sure I’ll always
see him as.Leaving him is going to
be terrible.

In other news, I stopped by the Garden Project on Wednesday,
and harvesting is in full swing. There were bags of tomatoes, kale, and swiss
chard for sale, and for the first time ever, I saw that there was uneaten
beetroot, cabbage, butternut, rice, and soup leftover from our OVC. Not only
are we able to adhere to our feeding scheme, but there actually appears to be
too much! We’ll have to figure out how to deal with waste management, but it
made me so happy to see that our IGP is paying off.